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BOOK IVDE DOCTRINA SIGNORUM

Foreword
(Prośmium) [introduction to the
contents of Book IV of Peter of Lombard's Book of Sentences], by St.
Bonaventure

DISTINCTION
IPART I, Chapter 1: On
the Sacraments.
Chapter 2: What is a Sacrament.
Chapter 3: What is a sign.
Chapter 4: How sign and Sacrament differ.
Chapter 5: Why the Sacraments have been instituted.
Chapter 6: On the difference of the Old and New Sacraments.
PART II, Chapter 7: On circumcision.
Chapter 8: The remedy which they had, who were before circumcision.
Chapter 9: On the institution of circumcision and its cause.
Chapter 10: On the little ones departed before the eighth day, on which
circumcision was done.

DISTINCTION I : Part I:
On the Sacraments in General, by St. Bonaventure

Question
1: On the Institution of the SacramentsQuestion
2: On the Signification of the SacramentsQuestion
3: On the Contents of the SacramentsQuestion
4: On the Efficacy of the SacramentsQuestion
5: On the Difference between the Old and New SacramentsQuestion
6: On the Grace conferred in the Sacraments

Article
I: On the Remedy for Original Sin in the time of the Natural Law

Question
1: Whether unformed faith sufficed for the remedy of original (sin)?Question
2: Whether for the Remission of Original Sin Faith alone would suffice?Question
3: Whether in Adults there was required the Virtue of Sacrifice for the
Remedy of Original (Sin)?

Article II: On the Remedy (for
sin) in the written Law or On Circumcision

Question 1: On the Institution
of Circumcision
Question 2: On the Form or Integrity of Circumcision
Question 3: On the Efficacy of Circumcision

DOUBTS on the text of Part II of
Master Peter's First Distinction

DISTINCTION
IX : "Concerning the Sacrament of the Eucharist in respect to
those receiving It."